MORE THRILLING ADVENTURES WITH THE WORLD`S FAVOURITE SAFARI GUIDE Plans are usually only good for one thing
- laughing at in hindsight.
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The Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale & variety of its sporting contests. Yet many of the games are unfamiliar to even the most avid sports fan. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes in. How to Watch the Olympics offers each sport`s backstory & culture, & explains the finer points of strategy, skulduggery & skill. Once you`ve read the book, you`ll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danes triumph at handball, what the Italian fencers are up to & why Greco-Roman wrestling is so crucial to Kasakhstan. You`ll know who invented the butterfly stroke, where water polo serves as the closest expression of warfare & how shuttlecocks travel faster than tennis balls. This edition has been freshly updated for the 2016 Games in Rio, including fresh material from London 2012 & chapters on the new Olympic sports of rugby sevens & golf. Seventeen days, 10, 500 athletes, 28 sports, 302 gold medals up for grabs: the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will soon be upon us. How to Watch the Olympics is your invaluable personal trainer. ...

Who first thought of atoms? How much can you learn about archaeology from an oil lamp? Who came up with the theory of the `wandering womb`? Oxford Classicist Jane Hood delves into the history, culture, literature, mythology & philosophy of ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt, using her expert eye to unearth unexpected gems, glittering fragments "able nuggets from a lost world. From ancient cosmetics to the earliest known computer, from the deciphering of ancient languages to the amazing things the Romans did with concrete, this is the essential miscellany for all curious minds, whether you learned the Classics at school or not. ...

Our relationship with money is one that lasts a lifetime. It can be as important as family life, as competitive as work, & as exciting & secretive as love. Yet books about money tend to take one of two routes: a) how to get more, or b) how to deal with less. This book turns these questions upside down, & looks not at money itself, but at the way we view it. How does money drive us? How does it frighten us? & how can it help us make sense of who we are? Money is too important a part of life for us not to worry about, but by approaching it differently, we can change the way we perceive its worth. With surprising & enlightening new insights, How to Worry Less About Money will help you realise what material wealth really means. ...

This lavish cloth-bound gift edition faithfully recreates in beautiful detail the Sherlock Holmes story Arthur Conan Doyle wrote especially for the Library of Queen Mary`s Dolls` House in 1922. In this classic story, Watson tries to mimic Holmes`s mastery of the art of deduction with very funny results, making this a book for both adults & children to delight in. Alongside the miniature book, which measures just 38.5 x 30 mm, the edition also contains an informative booklet with a transcript of the story & information about the Dolls` House. Queen Mary`s Dolls` House is the largest & most famous of its kind in the world, & has a library containing miniature works by all the major writers & artists of the day. ...

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual`s experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned
- food rationing, clothes rationing, the black-out & air raids get little space, & everyday shortages almost none at all. This book is an attempt to redress the balance; to tell the civilian`s story largely through their own recollections & in their own words.
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Where do our clothes come from? What`s the link between gorillas & mobile phones? Does chocolate grow on trees? Answering these questions & many more, How We Make Stuff is an engaging exploration of the way we use Earth`s natural resources. Featuring pop-ups, pull-tabs & booklets, it is an interactive extravaganza! The first title in the series, How The World Works, won the prestigious Royal Society Young People`s Book Prize. ...

Part of the TED series: How We`ll Live on Mars It sounds like science fiction, but award-winning journalist Stephen Petranek considers it fact: within 20 years, humans will live on Mars. We`ll need to. In this sweeping, provocative book that mixes business, science & human reporting, Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is an essential back-up plan for humanity, & explains in fascinating detail just how it will happen. It`s clear that the race is on. Private companies (driven by iconoclastic entrepreneurs like Elon Musk & Sir Richard Branson); Dutch reality show/space mission Mars One; NASA & the Chinese government are among the many groups competing to plant the first stake on Mars & open the door for human habitation. For Elon Musk, it`s the ”ultimate awesome thing.” For other entrepreneurs, it`s about competition & opportunity. For NASA, the Chinese government & the leagues of other private companies & foreign nationals racing to get to Mars, there are more urgent reasons as well: life on Mars has potential life-saving possibilities for us on earth. Depleting water supplies, overwhelming climate change & a host of other disasters
- from terrorist attacks to meteor strikes
- all loom large. We must become a space-faring species to survive. In this close-up narrative chronicle, Petranek introduces the circus of lively characters all engaged in a big-money, big-drama effort to expand the limits of human knowledge
- & life
- by being the first to settle on the Red Planet. How We`ll Live on Mars brings first-hand reporting, interviews with key players & extensive research to bear on the question of how we can best, & most plausibly, expect to see life on Mars
- within the next 20 years. Petranek can also be seen discussing his fascinating ideas in his TEDTalk 10 Ways The World Could End.




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In November 1922, a momentous discovery
- unlike any other before or since
- was to change our understanding of the ancient

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A detailed topographic map of Howardian Hills & Malton from the Ordnance Survey Explorer series, covering Yorkshire Wolds North. Edition A2; Publication date January 2006 About this series: These highly detailed maps show all the administrative boundaries, settlements as small as isolated farms, the road network down to unfenced roads & country tracks, & field boundaries (hedges & drystone walls) which make navigation across the countryside much easier. Steep gradients on roads are indicated. Various landmarks, e.g. powerlines, archaeological sites, windmills, churches & lighthouses are shown & additional graphics indicate natural terrain features such as cliffs, scree, mud & vegetation variations. The contour interval is 5 metres in the lower parts of the country & 10 metres in the uplands, & spot heights are marked. Each map covers an area of 30 x 20km (i.e. approx. 19 x 12 miles), with some double-sided maps covering more, as indicated in the individual descriptions. The maps are fully GPS compatible, with the National Grid shown at 1km intervals & latitude & longitude indicated by margin ticks at 1'. The Explorer series has replaced the earlier, green-cover Pathfinder maps. The Explorer series is now complete & covers all of Engl&, Wales & Scotl&. Some sheets for popular areas like the National Parks are still branded as Outdoor Leisure (OL) maps, but are now included in this series as the cartography is the same as that in the Explorer Maps. The Explorer maps offer a substantial improvement on the Pathfinder series, with greater use of colour, larger area per map, & stronger emphasis on information for ramblers & tourists. This series is ideal for walking & other outdoor pursuits & each map shows a large amount of information for ramblers & tourists. Public rights of way are shown (except in Scotland), together with other routes with public access: National Trails & Recreational Paths, permitted paths & bridleways, & selected cycle routes. Open access land created under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000 is marked. Tourist information

Includes:: caravan & camp sites, Park & Ride locations, recreation/leisure/sport centres, museums, historic buildings, English Heritage & National Trust sites, rural pubs, etc. The map legend is in English only, except for the tourist information content which is also in French & German.

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